[P2P-F] Fwd: [Open App Ecosystem] Requirements for a protocol for agent-centric P2P economic networks

Wed Jan 16 17:13:39 CET 2019

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From: Bob Haugen (Loomio) <notifications at loomio.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 3:56 PM
Subject: [Open App Ecosystem] Requirements for a protocol for agent-centric
P2P economic networks
To: <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

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*Bob Haugen* invited you to join: Requirements for a protocol for
agent-centric P2P economic networks
<https://www.loomio.org/invitations/7HwDZTnkAy3AbQQi2qjnxDEc?utm_campaign=discussion_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_source=discussion_announced>

Here’s my current definition of agent-centric
<https://github.com/valueflows/vf-apps-agents/wiki/Agent-centric-computing?utm_source=discussion_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=discussion_announced>.
I’ll explain what I mean by protocol in this list of proposed requirements:
* Must be a protocol
* Must have an openly published specification.
* Any independently-developed software that follow the specification must
be able to use the protocol to communicate with other software components
that do likewise.
* Must be agent-centric, where agents can be individuals or groups, and
each agent must be able to control their own identity, interactions, and
data, and select their own software to use, as long as the software follows
the protocol.
* Must either use a common economic vocabulary to communicate, or be able
to translate their ingoing and outgoing communications into a common
vocabulary.
* Must be managed as a commons in the Elinor Ostrom sense
<http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons?utm_source=discussion_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=discussion_announced>
.
* Must be able to provide reliable local consensus
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_(computer_science)?utm_source=discussion_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=discussion_announced>
among the participating agents in a scope agreed upon by the participants.
* More on this requirement in a comment.

Some people might disagree with this requirement, but
* I think, at this stage of the evolution of the general intellect, the
protocol needs to work on the World Wide Web. Can provide private spaces as
needed, but accessible via a Web browser.

There is no single protocol that satisfies all of those requirements at
this time.

Several candidate protocols were mentioned and discussed in this previous
thread
<https://www.loomio.org/d/SU1KiLVn/p2p-distributed-network-protocols?utm_source=discussion_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=discussion_announced>.
None of them is adequate by itself. Yet.

This document discusses some of the pluses, minuses, and problems with
three of those protocols
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Naw_P2Lsqnf5EMRQYWugEB5KuxtLro61VWiPTtdg4o/edit?usp=sharing&utm_source=discussion_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=discussion_announced>.

I don’t want to repeat all of those arguments here. I want to discuss how
to move forward and assemble a protocol that does meet all of those
requirements, and any others that people want to propose. At some stage of
discussion, I will create a poll or two to allow people to weigh in on the
adequacy of the requirements and maybe, if we are lucky, on the proposals
for moving forward.

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